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Article: Looking backward into the future. (wine industry)(Industry Overview)
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- Wines & Vines
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- October 1, 1997
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Heavy September Shipments Affect Grape Prices" screams the October 1927 edition of the Grape Grower (Wines & Vines after Repeal). Again, the growers were shipping too much, too soon and so prices began to drop. Also, editor Stoll comments that when the weather is "too hot, the 'foreign element' (!) does not want to use our grapes," but of course, the farmer here in California paid little attention to such marketing problems. When the grapes were near ripe, he picked. Especially if prices were weak and or falling.
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